RFE-SPONSORED PINKO SLAPS U.S. IN ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090036-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: December 16, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RFE-Sponsored Pinko Slaps U. S. in Asia
CAPITOL REPORT
? By FULTON LEWIS, JR.
? WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.?
Radio Free Europe operates
two shortwave radio stations,
one in Munich, Germany, sand
one in Lisbon, Portugal. ?
You probably have had no
managerial experience with a
radio :Aation, shortwave ? or
otherwise, but the operation
needs are essentially the same.
You are reasonably aware of the
amount of personnel your neigh-
borhood radio station employs.
From this should be sub:
tracted the number of persons
In the advertising sales depart-
ment because the Free Europe
? operation does not go in for ad-
vertising.
From this in turn, you may
reach at least an approximate
figure as to what the Munich
and Lisbon operations need in
the way of personnel.
?
THE FIGURES therefore may
- be of -interest to you, inasmuch
is these were supplied me, of.
? ficialiy by the Free Europe
Operation itself:,
Munich 1,200, Lisbon 400, Else-
where "200 lus," New York
200; TOW 2, Plus.
In addition to these In the
strict radio line, the overall Free
Europe Operation has 136 em-
ployees in the "Asian contacts.'
program, which consists of prop,
agandizing Far and Middle?Ust-
? ern Countries about how brut-
ally the Hungarians were treat-
ed in. the October, 1956 blood-
baths.
The real purpose of the Asian
Contacts program and another
operation called, the "book di;.
_
?
I It
tribution " is to find
-
for of the Ivy
in the New York
office, ?
They had to be taken care-el
when the balloon propaganda
program on which they form-
eriy were employed was aban-
doned of: order* of Washington.
j Among.. the: *Missionaries"
vet to Aliippla to display , the
film ?Hungary ',Aflame"was
reN=onethe leader of
postwar Russian-ocramted Hun-
MY.
Reliable Hungarian Nationals
Inform me that the party had
little success among the People,
but did perform service to the
Communists by dividing the
*Small Peasant's Party" so as
to virtually end its effectiveness.
The following is all exact trans-
Won of a magazine article
Which Retra*. wrote in 1951?
after fleeing from Corninunist
Hungary: ?
'The average American men-
tality does not tmderstand, the
geographical divisions in Europe
The mechanical style and
;Cording of the newspapers; the
general use of platitudes; the
Coca-Cola and chewing gum,
which if you are lucky, is .not'
spat ?into your face bat Card thb NEW YORK. MIRROR
pe..ats of. the .bioelt or. the. 5,2., M_O.N_DA_Y._,TpiEC._EMBE.R. 16,
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ways?end when you get home
you can hardly scrape It off
your' clothes or your shoes?
are all inexorable and ruthless
signs and elements of a modern
civilization which, has reached
It s climax- in Americanism. Ide-
ologically, America Is unpre-
pared; it can hardly be taken
tonsideration as an oppon-
ent of Bolshevism... America
stands firmly against Bolshe-
vism but it knows not what to
offer in its place."
This Is the man who is being
paid by "truth dollars" to spread
the American "concept of free-
dom" througla the Middle East.
As of a rwtttt check, he was
still a foreigrr national.
This project' has: assembled
mailing lists of individuals be-
hind the Iron Curtain, made up
chiefly froni telephone books, in
whom are sent books and phiets purporting to portray the
ester% message of freedom.
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SPOTLIGHT
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